Section 648-3-2 - DEFINITIONSA.Administrative costs. "Administrative costs" means costs of the Trust that are funded pursuant to and associated with the implementation of 35-A M.R.S.A. §10110, including, but not limited to, costs of program planning and evaluation, costs of securing necessary administrative expertise, costs associated with contract formation and administration and costs of monitoring and enforcing contractual obligations.B.Administrative fund. "Administration fund" means the conservation administration fund established by the Trust pursuant to 35-A M.R.S.A. § 10110(8).B-1.Board. "Board" means the Board of Trustees of the Efficiency Maine Trust.B-2.Beneficial electrification. "Beneficial electrification" means electrification of a technology or process that results in reduction in the use of a fossil fuel, including electrification of a technology or process that would otherwise require energy from a fossil fuel, and that provides a benefit to a utility, a ratepayer or the environment, without causing harm to utilities, ratepayers or the environment, by improving the efficiency of the electricity grid or reducing consumer costs or emissions, including carbon emissions.B-3.Commission. "Commission" means the Maine Public Utilities Commission.C.Conservation programs. "Conservation programs" means programs developed by the Trust pursuant to 35-A M.R.S.A. §10110 and this Chapter designed to reduce inefficient electricity use.D.Low-income residential consumer. "Low-income residential consumer" means a customer of a transmission and distribution utility receiving benefits under the utility's program to assist low-income customers, or a household that has qualified at any time in the prior 12 month period to receive assistance through any state or federal program in which low income and/or limited assets are criteria for eligibility.D-1.Maximum Achievable Cost-Effective Energy Conservation (MACE)." Maximum Achievable Cost-Effective Energy Conservation" or "MACE" means all cost-effective, reliable, and achievable energy conservation savings for purposes of 35-A M.R.S.A. §§10104(4) and 10110(4-A). In this Chapter, the term MACE applies to a quantity of energy savings and a budget for Trust programs that is reasonably likely to achieve that savings.E.Measure. "Measure" means a device, application, operation, or any combination thereof, that is installed or implemented and that improves energy efficiency.F.Participant. "Participant" means a customer who directly takes part in a Conservation Program.G.Program fund. "Program fund" means the conservation program fund established by the Trust pursuant to 35-A M.R.S.A. §10110(7).H.Small business consumer. "Small business consumer" means a non-residential customer of a transmission and distribution utility that is designated in the utility's distribution rates, based on the customer's energy usage at a specific location or on a specific account, to receive general service through the customer class reserved for small non-residential users, including where applicable the small general service and the medium general service customer classes. This excludes any commercial utility accounts designated for large customers, customers who take power at the transmission or subtransmission voltage, street or area lighting only, space or water heating only, municipal water pumping, agricultural produce storage, or snow making. If the utility does not make such designations in its accounts or billing, then the Trust may extend the definition to a business customer that employs 50 or fewer full-time equivalent employees across all locations in Maine, giving consideration to the average number of employees that the business employs annually.I.Triennial Plan. "Triennial Plan" means the detailed, triennial, energy efficiency, beneficial electrification, alternative energy resources and conservation plan developed by staff of the Trust, approved by the Board, and then approved by the Commission consistent with the provisions of 35-A M.R.S.A. §10104 subsections (4) and (6).J.Utility procurement order. "Utility procurement order" means the procurement amount to be paid by each transmission and distribution utility to the Trust each fiscal year of the Triennial Plan period, per the order of the Commission after approving the MACE budget and netting out other funding streams allocated to the MACE budget by the Board in the Trust's Triennial Plan.